Bhaktivedanta VedaBase: Śrīmad Bhāgavatam 9.15.9

tāvat satyavatī mātrā

sva-caruḿ yācitā satī

śreṣṭhaḿ matvā tayāyacchan

mātre mātur adat svayam

SYNONYMS

tāvat — in the meantime; satyavatī — Satyavatī, the wife of Ṛcīka; mātrā — by her mother; sva-carum — the oblation meant for herself (Satyavatī); yācitā — asked to give; satī — being; śreṣṭham — better; matvā — thinking; tayā — by her; ayacchat — delivered; mātre — to her mother; mātuḥ — of the mother; adat — ate; svayam — personally.

TRANSLATION

Meanwhile, because Satyavatī's mother thought that the oblation prepared for her daughter, Ṛcīka's wife, must be better, she asked her daughter for that oblation. Satyavatī therefore gave her own oblation to her mother and ate her mother's oblation herself.

PURPORT

A husband naturally has some affection for his wife. Therefore Satyavatī's mother thought that the oblation prepared for Satyavatī by the sage Ṛcīka must have been better than her own oblation. In Ṛcīka's absence, the mother took the better oblation from Satyavatī and ate it.

<<< >>>

Copyright © The Bhaktivedanta Book Trust International, Inc.
His Divine Grace A. C. Bhaktivedanta Swami Prabhupāda, Founder Ācārya of the International Society for Krishna Consciousness